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leasing

noun
/ˈliːzɪŋ//ˈliːsɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).

  1. inherited from *lausungō✻
  2. inherited from *lausungu✻
  3. inherited from lēasung
  4. inherited from lesing

Definitions

  1. A lie

    A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.

    • fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes.
    • Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about, With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’, With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid, And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’.
    • Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies.

  2. present participle of lease (“to tell lies”)

  3. present participle and gerund of lease

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. gerund of lease

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